Mt. San Antonio College

Writing Resources

On this page you will find many resources to help you with your writing. The information has been organized around the different stages of the writing process. Please feel free to print handouts for yourself, and don't forget to make an appointment with a tutor if you need additional help!

Outlining

The Five Paragraph Essay Outline
Reverse Outlining

Drafting 

Thesis Generator
They Say/I Say: A Model for Developing Arguments and Thesis Statements
Transitions and Words That Show Logical Relationships
The MEAL Paragraph Plan
Quotations, Paraphrasing, and Paragraph Development
The Five Paragraph Essay
The Conclusion Paragraph
Logos, Ethos and Pathos


Revision

11 Tips to Improve Your Writing
What Does My Professor Really Want?
Logical Fallacies

Editing and Proofreading

Articles
Harry Potter and the Absolute

Harry Potter and the Participial Phrase

Prepositional Phrases
Relative Clauses (page 1)
Relative Clauses (page 2)
Semi-colons, Colons, and Dashes
Sentence Boundaries: Fixing Fragments, Run-ons, and Comma Splices
The Paramedic Method: Making Sentences Clear and Concise
Verb Tenses
 

MLA Documentation

APA Documentation

General Formatting Guidelines
In-text Citations
Reference List

Chicago Style Documentation

Notes-Bibliography
Author-Date

Bibliographic Guideline

Notes Guideline

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
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